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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1889
Page
4
Fragment of a poem or lyric lament describing two lovers adrift on a sea of time. It laments broken dreams, tempted choices, and a drift from friendship to passion, ending with muted regret and distance between the speakers. Names or dates are unclear in the readable text.
A New Orleans Medical and Surgical Reporter correspondent notes widespread use of petrolean oil by London artisans and the poor, linking it to frequent accidents. Brownbill’s prepay gasmeter bar, tested in rail stations, releases gas in fixed quantities for a penny. A single device handles six hours per burner, with up to 153 units, enabling 638 hours of gas across multiple burners.
Legal notices announce claims against estates in Allegany County New York. Executors Mary E. Wills and Whitwood address creditors to present vouchers by dates in 1888 and 1889. further Administrators sale offers farm three hundred seventy four acres near Friendship with two village houses. Public notices list deadlines and contact details for payment and property sale.
Buffalo report from Vindex Overkesrs arguing the fair's vast crowds and diverse exhibits. He notes attendance surpassing last year on Citizens Day, describes popular shows from horse to art galleries, and recounts a lively carriage conversation. He highlights balloon ascents, poultry, cattle displays, and the Russian Wedding Feast as major draws, urging visitors to explore the Main Building and live stock shows while offering tips on timing and seating.
Mec Baechery's father Dr Lyman Bevcher recalls childhood amusements as hunting and fishing with vivid memories from Beaver Head to Quinnepaugh Outlet. He recounts first catches, a sawmill pickerel without bait, trout and salmon at the milldam, and a six-fish string of brook trout with grasshopper and worm bait.
Fragments from a Boston Transcript column mix romantic verse with moral musings. A quip on the peril of the last word contrasts tender lovers with a comical legal tale where a neighbor loses a tree dispute and a farmer ends up selling his farm to cover costs.
Sounds and wry lines from a Detriot Free Press collection. A broker’s beverage joke, a police station quip, a push cart barrow tone, and paradoxes about loot, elephants, fiddlers, philanthropists, and home life. A playful mosaic of aphorisms.
A pupil’s piece mocks sailors as fat men in oversized clothes and focuses on early infant bathing habits. It describes washing a newborn with a tepid cloth, drying with towels, and gradually introducing bath time, emphasizing care and cleanliness lessons from a classroom text. The text blends playful misstatements with practical steps for infant care and domestic routines.
The piece notes West Virginia as the most promising oil field today amid excitement over discoveries. It mentions Indiana inventor Mr Hill who patents a method to solidify natural gas and references a long standing congress motion to print leave. It recounts Jamestown Oil Co drilling near Findlay where a dry well was followed by a new depth showing oil at about 2,000 barrels per day after shifting the rig 600 feet southwest and drilling to 1,200 feet.
A St Louis Glebe-Damo wens report describes the Kixclusive Organization, an ultra selective club named for an Irish patriot. It has just six local members, meetings irregularly arranged by the president, and secret deliberations with no outside disclosure. Members say national membership is under 1,000 and funds support Parnell defense and local charities. No details of proceedings are shared or publicized.
A Mongolian traveler clashed with a ticket agent at an elevated railroad station over a five cent change dispute. Persistently shouting Cheese it give me five cents, the man fled with a nickel after snatching it from a senile old passenger. The agent, condemning immigration, muttered that honest whites would struggle to make a living if such foreigners were allowed in. In a second anecdote, a jeweler debunked a woman's claim that a ring was a real diamond calling it glass, and explained he refuses to be blamed for deception and would not risk a charge of fraud by repairing an obviously worthless stone.
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